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CSS Pointers

These links were compiled by Toby
Brown, Jan
Roland Eriksson, and Sue Sims. Additional information
about the authors' CSS philosophies and usage may be found
online. Suggestions and criticisms are
welcome.

New items are flagged with the [new!] notagif. (TM) Links which have been
moved to the archives are marked with {A}.

The Base Stylesheet describes the "consensus default"
rendering of all HTML 4.0 elements in Mosaic-derivative Web
browsers (Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet
Explorer). It is intended as an exercise in stylesheet
architecture, a browser testing tool, an (unofficial)
complement to the HTML 4.0 specification, and a basis for
editing or "cascading in" other stylesheet modules.

CSS1 and the Decorative HR - The most useful
solution to utilizing style with horizontal rules is revealed,
along with the process by which author Alan Flavell
investigated implementation differences in his search for a
workable solution.

Dave Raggett's
Tidy , a utility to clean up your HTML. According to
the author: Missing or mismatched end tags are detected and
corrected, end tags in the wrong order are corrected, fixes
problems with heading emphasis, recovers from mixed up tags,
perfecting lists by putting in tags missed out, missing quotes
around attribute values are added, proprietary elements are
recognized and reported as such.

Now, using
CSSCheckUp , you may select a Cascading Style Sheet
from your computer to be uploaded and checked

Message index of www-style@w3.org mailing
list Discussions by interested parties, including
those responsible for the CSS Specification, on current and
proposed implementation issues. Not the best place to ask
questions about your own authoring problems, but a good place
to glean current concerns.

Why Style Sheets are Harmful - "Yucca" shares
concerns about the complexity, incomplete specification, change
to the user/author paradigm, and warns of using CLASS
declarations as a means to add extensibility to HTML.

Special thanks to Ian Feldman for
some excellent design suggestions, which were Full-O-Reason.
[tm]

These links were compiled by Toby Brown, Jan Roland Eriksson, and Sue Sims. Additional information about the authors' CSS philosophies and usage may be found online. Suggestions and criticisms are welcome.